In this book, Tsai finds that even when formal democratic and bureaucratic institutions of accountability are weak, government officials can still be subject to informal rules and norms created by community solidary groups that have earned high moral standing in the community.
Thus, the Junior League provides solidary incentives by emphasizing the social status of and personal interactions among its members, while companies provide material incentives — i.e., money and other economic value — which buy them more tactical flexibility.
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He distinguished three types of incentives — solidary (that is, incentives that promote solidarity), material and purposive — and he theorized that the specific type of incentive distributed by a particular group both shapes and constrains its behavior and effectiveness.
This work became the basis for her book, "Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China Cambridge Universityty, 2007).
The current crisis affords the chance to pick up its thread once more, reconnecting the dream of women's liberation with the vision of a solidary society.
This work became the basis for her book, Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China (Cambridge University, 2007).
These boundaries might serve to inhibit communication between readers and writers of different cultures, but, she writes, "I … sometimes wonder if in the intimate, both solitary and solidary, union between writers and readers a border can really exist".
Such solidary is essential: despite South Africa being the first country in Africa to legalize same-sex marriage, homophobia remains rampant there, and "Faces" includes portraits of women who have survived the heinous practice of "corrective" rape.
I have the right to be here," Cris Sardina, the director of the Desiree Alliance, said — an oblique reference to the fact that, last year, the organizers of the Women's March had professed to "stand in solidary with all those exploited for sex and labor".
